• 2-Michelin-Starred TATE Dining Room & Date by TATE to join the fight against hunger and food waste with Feeding Hong Kong

    The pioneer of innovative French Chinese cuisine in Hong Kong by Chef Vicky Lau (The Loop’s Best Chef 2020, Hong Kong Living’s Chef of the Year 2020) and recent awardee of two MICHELIN stars, TATE Dining Room will follow its annual tradition of community service on International Women’s Day (8th March), this time in collaboration with Feeding Hong Kong.

    Together with the date by TATE team, the entire TATE Dining Room staff (30 members) will join Feeding Hong Kong for a morning of volunteering. The group will split into two groups, with one group taking on the Warehouse Workout Challenge, consisting of a morning of unloading, sorting and packing surplus food donations in Feeding Hong Kong’s warehouse. The second group will take part in Feeding Hong Kong’s Emergency Food Box initiative, created as a direct response to Covid-19. Together, these two volunteering programs will help Feeding Hong Kong realize its goal of packing and delivering 225,000 meals per month throughout 2021. The TATE team will do its part by unloading and sorting 6 pallets of rescued surplus food that would otherwise have been sent to landfill, and packing 400 Emergency Food Boxes in volunteering shifts lasting 2-3 hours. Each Emergency Food Box contains enough essential food for 42 meals, including dry goods such as rice, noodles, oats, and beans, canned proteins, and beverages like tea and UHT milk.

    “On this International Women’s Day, we decided to scrap the idea of cooking a special dinner at our restaurant and instead take direct action with the help of Feeding Hong Kong. We are passionate about this particular cause and hope as many hungry individuals receive the nourishing meals they deserve,” says Chef Vicky Lau. “This will also be a very valuable experience for our teams to learn more about the shocking reality of food waste and food poverty in Hong Kong.”

    “We’re looking forward to welcoming the TATE Dining Room and date by TATE teams to our warehouse this International Women’s Day. Around the world women are hit harder by poverty and Hong Kong is no exception. 1 in 6 women in the city live below the poverty line and are defined as a high risk category alongside residents of subdivided flats, low-income workers, the elderly and ethnic minorities. But despite being disproportionately affected, it’s women that are overwhelmingly changemakers when it comes to tackling hunger; as nurturers, cooks and caregivers they determine the nutrition for their children and families,” Gabrielle Kirstein, founder and CEO of Feeding Hong Kong shared. “By helping to raise awareness around these issues, and help prepare food that will be distributed to charities supporting underserved women in Hong Kong, the teams will be making a meaningful impact in our community and helping us to keep food flowing to where it is needed most.”